Elon Musk is out, but the Trump administration still wants to beef up funding and staffing for its DOGE operation, according to budget documents released last week. Tucked inside the lengthy budget appendix the White House released Friday are details about the administration’s post-Musk vision for DOGE.

The House is expected to vote Thursday on White House's rescission package to claw back funding for NPR, PBS, foreign aid.

Congressional Republicans are gearing up for a major test of how easily they can lock in cuts sought by President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)

The request would support an estimated 150 full time employees, 80% of whom would be paid out of agency reimbursements, rather than DOGE-specific funds.

Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said in an emailed statement that the Trump administration was already “illegally impounding additional funds,” as withholding money has “always been illegal without explicit Congressional approval.”

At least 38 DOGE members work, or have worked, for one of Elon Musk’s companies. Meanwhile, nearly two dozen DOGE officials are making cuts to the same federal agencies that regulate the industries that employed them.

White House budget director Russ Vought spoke to CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday morning. With a chyron reading "Meet the man behind President Trump's scorched-earth agenda," Bash asked: "Explain why the administration wants to cut so much from cancer research?

The package to be voted on targets funding already approved by congress for foreign aid programs, NPR and PBS.